18 Best thriller books like Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10) by Ken Bruen

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Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

By: Ken Bruen

4.20

Format: 240 pages,

Recovering from the severe mental and physical wounds inflicted from his recent past, Jack Taylor h…

If you liked the thriller plot in Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10) by Ken Bruen , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.96

Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's God Save The Child (Spenser, #2) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)

By: Steve Berry

3.84

Format: 511 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and … read more

Similar categories in Steve Berry's The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"1. "...All the complicated things in life can be settled over a cup of coffee. A person will tell more of their private life after one good cup of coffee, than after a magnum of Champagne or a quarte…"

-Steve Berry, The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)

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3. Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve … read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe #1)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, … read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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5. The Dead Yard (Michael Forsythe #2)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

While on holiday in Spain, Michael Forsythe is arrested in the chaos of a soccer riot and hauled of… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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6. Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

By: Ken Bruen

4.20

Format: 240 pages,

Recovering from the severe mental and physical wounds inflicted from his recent past, Jack Taylor h… read more

Similar categories in Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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7. The Bloomsday Dead (Michael Forsythe #3)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

In the heart-stopping finale of the Dead trilogy, tough guy Michael Forsythe -- bad-boy antihero of… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature

8. Riding the Rap

By: Elmore Leonard

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review Befo… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

9. The Ghosts of Belfast (Jack Lennon Investigations #1)

By: Stuart Neville

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Stuart Neville has written not jut a superb thriller but a significant work of literature which exp… read more

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10. The Chamber

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a… read more

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11. Those We Left Behind (DCI Serena Flanagan #1)

By: Stuart Neville

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Ciaran Devine confessed to killing his foster carer it sent shock waves throug… read more

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12. Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.33

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This i… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has tra…"

-Adrian McKinty, Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

13. The Anatomist's Apprentice (Dr. Thomas Silkstone #1)

By: Tessa Harris

3.76

Format: 336 pages,

In the first in a stunning new mystery series set in eighteenth-century England, Tessa Harris intro… read more

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14. Far North (Fire & Ice, #2)

By: Michael Ridpath

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

"International thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fr… read more

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15. Nobody Walks

By: Mick Herron

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more

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16. In the Morning I'll be Gone (Sean Duffy #3)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A spectacular escape and a man-hunt that could change the future of a nation - and lay one man's pa… read more

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17. Where the Shadows Lie (Fire & Ice, #1)

By: Michael Ridpath

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript insc… read more

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18. I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy #2)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Irlanda del Norte, anos ochenta. Un torso aparece en una maleta abandonada. Ha estado congelado, lo… read more

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19. Gun Street Girl (Detective Sean Duffy #4)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles": Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (R… read more

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20. The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

By: Adrian McKinty , Gerard Doyle

3.92

Format: 11 pages, Audio CD

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

21. Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)

By: Jeff Lindsay

4.00

Format: 120 pages,

The newest novel in the New York Timesbestselling series that inspired Showtime's #1 hit, Dexter. J… read more

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22. Pronto

By: Elmore Leonard

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more

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Cover of Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser #50) by Mike Lupica

23. Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser #50)

By: Mike Lupica

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of … read more

Similar categories in Mike Lupica's Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser #50) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8) by Nick Petrie

24. The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8)

By: Nick Petrie

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

War veteran Peter Ash must follow his friend Lewis into a criminal underworld when secrets from the… read more

Similar categories in Nick Petrie's The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) by Adrian McKinty

25. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

26. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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27. The Dark Remains

By: William McIlvanney

3.84

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

In this scorching crime prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-w… read more

Similar categories in William McIlvanney's The Dark Remains book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice."

-William McIlvanney, The Dark Remains

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28. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

Similar categories in Fintan O'Toole's We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • ireland
  • irish literature
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Cover of Broken Ground (Inspector Karen Pirie, #5) by Val McDermid

29. Broken Ground (Inspector Karen Pirie, #5)

By: Val McDermid

4.18

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

Alice Somerville's inheritance lies six feet under in a Highland peat bog - a pair of valuable vint… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Broken Ground (Inspector Karen Pirie, #5) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1) by Liam McIlvanney

30. The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1)

By: Liam McIlvanney

4.10

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The Quaker is watching you… It is 1969 and Glasgow has been brought to its knees by a serial kil… read more

Similar categories in Liam McIlvanney's The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1) by Caimh McDonnell

31. Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

4.41

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

For Detective Bunny McGarry, life is complicated, and it is about to get more so.It’s 1999 and his … read more

Similar categories in Caimh McDonnell's Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1) book and Ken Bruen's Purgatory (Jack Taylor, #10)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone."

-Caimh McDonnell, Angels in the Moonlight (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #3; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #1)

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3.84

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4.38

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Michael Connelly

4.56

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John Sandford

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